[Imap-uw] uninterruptible sleep, high load average, high iowait

[Jeroen van Aart]

Mark Crispin wrote:

> starts to creek around that point as well, although the issues in mbx is more

> with the number of messages than the raw mailbox size.


"luckily" those who have such huge mailboxes more than likely have a few 
huge emails with attachments. It'll take a while for your mailbox to 
grow to about 1 GB with "regular emails" even when you get a lot of 
spam. I have (had) a few users whose INBOX was getting close to 1 GB and 
warned them, they since decided to follow my advice and create dated 
archive mailboxes to move their old email into. Though once the mailbox 
grows to beyond the 2 gb limit the problem happily solves itself. ;-)

Greetings,
Jeroen